patriota

See also: patriotą, patriotă, and patrióta

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pə.tɾiˈɔ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pa.tɾiˈɔ.ta]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Noun

patriota m or f by sense (plural patriotes)

1. patriot

Related terms

• pàtria
• patriòtic
• patriotisme

References

• “patriota”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “patriota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “patriota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “patriota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin patriōta.

Adjective

patriota m or f (plural patriotas)

1. patriotic

   Synonym: patriótico

Noun

patriota m or f by sense (plural patriotas)

1. patriot

Related terms

• compatriota
• patria
• patriotismo

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin patriōta.

Noun

patriota (plural patriotas)

1. patriot

Italian

Alternative forms

• patriotta

Etymology

From Latin patriōta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.triˈɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Hyphenation: pa‧tri‧ò‧ta

Noun

patriota m or f by sense (masculine plural patrioti, feminine plural patriote)

1. patriot

Related terms

• patria
• patriottico
• patriottismo

Further reading

• patriota in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• piratato

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs, “of the same country”). Related to patria (“country, fatherland”), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pa.triˈoː.ta] or IPA^(key): [pat.riˈoː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pa.t̪riˈɔː.t̪a] or IPA^(key): [pat̪.riˈɔː.t̪a]

Noun

patriōta m (genitive patriōtae); first declension

1. countryman

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	patriōta	patriōtae
genitive	patriōtae	patriōtārum
dative	patriōtae	patriōtīs
accusative	patriōtam	patriōtās
ablative	patriōtā	patriōtīs
vocative	patriōta	patriōtae

Derived terms

• compatriōta

Related terms

• patria

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: patriota (learned)
• → Czech: patriot
• → Dutch: patriot
  • → Indonesian: patriot
• → Middle French: patriote (learned)
  • French: patriote
  • → English: patriot
• → Galician: patriota (learned)
• → German: Patriot (learned)
• → Interlingua: patriota
• → Italian: patriota (learned)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: patriot
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: patriot
• → Polish: patriota
• → Portuguese: patriota (learned)
• → Romanian: patriot (learned)
• → Serbo-Croatian: patriot
• → Spanish: patriota (learned)
• → Swedish: patriot

References

• “patriota”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• patriota in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "patriota", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “patriota”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

Polish

FWOTD – 02 May 2025

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin patriōta. The colloquial sense stems from the paint scheme matching the Polish national flag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈtrjɔ.ta/, (dated) /pa.trɘˈjɔ.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Syllabification: pa‧trio‧ta

Noun

patriota m pers (female equivalent patriotka)

1. patriot (person who loves, supports and defends their country)

Declension

Declension of patriota

	singular	plural
nominative	patriota	patrioci/patrioty (deprecative)
genitive	patrioty	patriotów
dative	patriocie	patriotom
accusative	patriotę	patriotów
instrumental	patriotą	patriotami
locative	patriocie	patriotach
vocative	patrioto	patrioci

Noun

patriota m inan

Bollards in Warsaw, Poland. Such a bollard is called a patriota because it is painted in the same colours as the Polish flag.

1. (colloquial) A type of bollard used to restrict vehicle access, painted red and white.

   Synonyms: patriotka, słupek

   • 2013 October 29, Aleksandra Synowiec, “Nowe słupki w Warszawie. Ładne?”, in WawaLove.pl‎^[2], archived from the original on 2016 March 5:

     "Gamdzyki" zastąpią "czopki" oraz "patriotów".

     “Gamdzyki” will replace the “cones” as well as the “bollards”.

Declension

Declension of patriota

	singular	plural
nominative	patriota	patrioty
genitive	patrioty	patriotów
dative	patriocie	patriotom
accusative	patriotę	patrioty/patriotów
instrumental	patriotą	patriotami
locative	patriocie	patriotach
vocative	patrioto	patrioty

Further reading

• patriota in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• patriota in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin patriōta, from Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs, “of the same country”). By surface analysis, pátria +‎ -ota.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.tɾiˈɔ.tɐ/ [pa.tɾɪˈɔ.tɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.tɾiˈɔ.tɐ/ [pa.tɾɪˈɔ.tɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.tɾiˈɔ.ta/ [pa.tɾɪˈɔ.ta]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐ.tɾiˈɔ.tɐ/

• Hyphenation: pa‧tri‧o‧ta

Adjective

patriota m or f (plural patriotas)

1. patriotic

   Synonym: patriótico

Noun

patriota m or f by sense (plural patriotas)

1. patriot
2. (Brazil, informal) a follower of former president of Brazil Jair Messias Bolsonaro (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Related terms

• compatriota
• pátria
• patriotário
• patriotismo

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French patriote, from Late Latin patriōta, from Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs, “fellow countryman”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈtɾjota/ [paˈt̪ɾjo.t̪a]

• Audio (Argentina):

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• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: pa‧trio‧ta

Adjective

patriota m or f (masculine and feminine plural patriotas)

1. patriotic

   Synonym: patriótico

Noun

patriota m or f by sense (plural patriotas)

1. patriot

Derived terms

• antipatriota
• patriotería
• patriótico
• patriotismo

Related terms

• compatriota
• patria

Further reading

• “patriota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10